NASA program scientist visits Madison Elementary School

MASSENA - Susan Mayo, program scientist for the International Space Station Office at NASAs Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, spent three days at Madison Elementary School in Massena with Darcie Fregoes sixthgradescience classes teaching the students about NASA, the ISS, the astronaut program, and science in microgravity.

Mrs. Fregoes sixthgraders performed various activities and experiments on Earth while astronauts on the ISS performed the same experiments so that students could predict and compare their results with those performed by astronauts on the space station.

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